11:56 PM,
Feb. 20, 2014

Written by

Rob McCurdy
CentralOhio.com

In golf, it's called getting the yips - the inability to close the deal on the putting green.

If Ohio State's men's basketball team kept it up, the college basketball version of the yips was threatening to be called "getting the Buckeyes."

Ohio State simply had a tough time closing out opponents in January, losing in the second half to Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Penn State. It reared itself again when Michigan used a second-half run to turn a 10-point deficit into a 10-point victory Feb. 11. ...